According to my friend..I'm not into ♥'s this Valentine Season. (Our Week in Review)

I can't believe how quickly this week has gone by! Maybe I was productive, because I don't have a dry load of laundry waiting for me to fold and put away right now.

Around the House: We did the basics. While school is in session around here, that's about all we get done. (Specially, if I'm pregnant.)
Today, I had a prenatal visit and the glucouse test. I got to see the baby in the 4D ultrasound. She's got chubby cheeks and weighs 3lbs. 10 oz. according to the ultrasound measurements. I've gained about 25lbs. Could this be why I'm seemingly hungry every few hours?
I had enough bread to get me by till this weekend. I should be making bread this Saturday.

School: 5 yr. old-

• In Math this week we have been working on simple addition, and decimal street. She's getting better at recognizing the difference between the units(ones) and the tens. Also, worked on the hundreds.
• In reading, she has been reading from her HOP reader and reviewing her phonograms. Her new sounds this week are: ew, tch, oy, oi, ph. We review all her sounds almost every day and she's starting to pick them out in words she notices around and about.
• For music this week, she has began to teach herself Rocky Top and continues to practice the other songs she can play by ear. She also made up her own little song that she plays with different complimenting notes, hands together.

8 yr. old-

• In Math, we are learning to skip count by 12's learning to calculate inches by feet. Working on subtraction facts/addition. In Math U See, working on Magic Squares and area. Reviewed random skip counting from multiplication 2's-10's.
• L.A. Reviewed past memorized poems, four types of sentences. Worked on direct and indirect quotations, narration/dictation, adjectives.
• In music, didn't practice too much and picked a different song for a Fiddle Competition.

10 yr. old-

• We did much better this week because I got my act together and corrected each math lesson that day and so he made corrections that same day. Introduced multiple-digit multiplication (ex. 23x42=).
• L.A we are working on newspapers. Pulled out our handy dandy typewritter. Would you believe the ink still worked? It did. And they typed away. They have been playing with it and decided they would be reporters. We're covering research on Ben Franklin and Peter Zenger's involvement in the printing of newspapers. Worked on odd verbs. Copied poem to a poem format, typed, and printed out to mail to River of Words Poetry Contest. Worked on vocabulary definitions and their parts in speech. Also worked on contractions and possesive pronouns, which he has trouble on.
• In Music, he also didn't practice much this week and needs to spend good practice time to prepare well for recital. (I'm not sure why they didn't practice much?? Maybe it was the weather. It was just so nice outside.)

In Science and Social Studies-(Dear friend says I should post pictures and tell you how I'm not into hearts but more into brains.)

We began our study about the brain this week. We read about the five senses, traced the brain and labeled it, and dissected a cow's brain. We also disscussed which parts do what and a few things that hinder us from solving problems.

Here's a few of their speculations during our dissection: (Which involved me cutting the brain in half and showing them the two hemispheres. Letting them touch the cerebrum, cerebellum, and medula. They were to take notice of the different texture for the 3 different parts.)

"Is that what our brain really looks like?"
"Is it really that soft?"

I was amazed at how little a cow's brain is. Also the cerebellum is small and it took me a while to recognize it since I was looking for something about half the size of the cerebrum. Instead it was about 1/5 of the size of the cerebrum. I thought this would be a really queazy project, but it turned out that it didn't bother me any more than dealing with the liver, gizzards, stew meat from a turkey or beef cut.

Was it worth it? Definitely. The children were amazed and the safety issue of how important it is for them to care for their head really hit home. This is one memory that won't be forgotten. Sadly, I couldn't get any pictures because I was having trouble charging my camera.

Well, there you have it. A whole week in review. I forgot to mention that our Bible lesson covered Achan's sin and Israel's battle with the city of Ai. God isn't mocked, and sin seriously separates us from Him. Perhaps our study wanted us to think a little more on premeditated sin. What do you think?

Hope you have a very nice Happy Valentine's Day. ♥♥♥